Sentinel Threadripper PRO 9995WX (2× RTX 6000): When You Need to Train, Not Just Inference By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Workstation That Replaces a GPU Cluster You’ve maxed out mini PCs. 128GB unified memory isn’t enough. 70B 8-bit needs 73GB. 405B 4-bit needs 228GB. You need system RAM + multiple GPUs […]
Sentinel Threadripper PRO 9995WX (2× RTX 6000): When You Need to Train, Not Just Inference By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Workstation That Replaces a GPU Cluster You’ve maxed out mini PCs. 128GB unified memory isn’t enough. 70B 8-bit needs 73GB. 405B 4-bit needs 228GB. You need system RAM + multiple GPUs […]
NVIDIA DGX Spark: The Reference Design Everyone Copies By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Source NVIDIA built the GB10 Superchip. Then they built a reference system around it. Called it DGX Spark. Gave it to partners (ASUS, MSI, others) and said “make this.” The NVIDIA DGX Spark is that reference design. Same […]
NIMO AI Mini PC: 8TB Storage Changes the Model Library Game By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Storage Breakthrough Every mini PC in this class has 128GB RAM and 2TB NVMe. The NIMO has 8TB NVMe. That’s not a typo. Eight terabytes. In a 5×5×2 inch box. Why it matters: A serious […]
NIMO AI Mini PC: 8TB Storage Changes the Model Library Game By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Storage Breakthrough Every mini PC in this class has 128GB RAM and 2TB NVMe. The NIMO has 8TB NVMe. That’s not a typo. Eight terabytes. In a 5×5×2 inch box. Why it matters: A serious […]
NVIDIA DGX Spark: The Reference Design Everyone Copies By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Source NVIDIA built the GB10 Superchip. Then they built a reference system around it. Called it DGX Spark. Gave it to partners (ASUS, MSI, others) and said “make this.” The NVIDIA DGX Spark is that reference design. Same […]
Lenovo ThinkStation P5: Xeon Workstation for the Long Haul By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce Why Xeon Still Exists Everyone tells you Threadripper or Xeon W is dead. “Just get EPYC” they say. “Or use the cloud.” Then you try to run a 70B model on a consumer platform and hit: no ECC […]
HP ZBook X 16 G1i: Intel Core Ultra + Blackwell — The “AI PC” Finally Means Something By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The AI PC Promise vs. Reality For two years, “AI PC” has been a marketing term. NPU here, Copilot key there. Mostly marketing. The HP ZBook X 16 G1i is […]
GMKtec EVO-X2: Same Chip, Different Mission — Gaming Meets AI Workstation By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Double Feature Two mini PCs. Same chip. Same 126 TOPS. Same 128GB LPDDR5X. Same Radeon 8060S. Beelink GTR9 Pro: Business focus. Dual 10GbE. VESA mount. Quiet. $4,349. GMKtec EVO-X2: Gaming focus. […]
Dell Precision 7780: CAMM Memory Changes the Mobile Workstation Game By Sarah Chen, Staff Writer, Global AI Workforce The Memory Innovation Nobody Talked About Dell Precision 7780 looks like a standard 17.3″ mobile workstation. i9-13950HX, RTX 2000 Ada, Windows 11 Pro. But open the bottom panel and you’ll find something new: CAMM (Compression Attached Memory […]